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...LINES "Our research shows the average male in the U.S. owns one pair of jeans that are 10 years old and one size too small." Phil Marineau, Levi Strauss CEO, explaining why the company is launching a brand to be sold in discount stores "Your middle name must be Teflon." George Mudie, British M.P., on how the country's chief statistician survived after his office made a $67 billion accounting error "We had been promised a great leap forward. What we got was an inch in the right direction." Brian Coulton, senior director at the Fitch rating agency, on Japan...
...bite, or at least the sound-bite, on the company. Last week, under this intense pressure, Sommer resigned, admitting that he had lost the board's confidence. It was the end of seven stormy years for the 52 year-old, Israel-born CEO, who earned the nickname "the Teflon manager." But his departure hasn't automatically solved the problems at Telekom - and it may have back- fired politically for Schröder. Telekom board member Hel-mut Sihler was nam-ed to succeed Sommer for six months while a permanent successor is sought. Sihler, 72, a former chairman...
...prosecutors just couldn’t seem to convict him. As he won acquittal after acquittal—either by intimidating key witnesses or, in a 1986-87 case, by paying off a juror—Gotti gained a reputation as the city’s “Teflon Don,” for it was said that no charges would stick to him. He was, as Sante points out, “New York’s bandit king,” strolling arrogantly into court in his $2,000 Brioni suits while throngs of cheering fans maneuvered...
...always a peculiarly parochial, New York City phenomenon, like Ed Koch or egg creams.) He made like a mobster out of central casting, plunging into night life wearing $2,000 suits (hence his nickname "the Dapper Don") and taunting the feds by being acquitted three times (hence, "the Teflon Don") before the charges stuck...
...been so far - to justify what he said. This way, economists and pundits and investors and investor-watchers are left confused and maybe a little hurt - not to mention in possession of the excuse many of them have been waiting for to knock Father Greenback off his Teflon pedestal...